BONNIE EMILIUS
Holland,PA
Summary
Expertise in leading complex operations, increasing efficiency, and impacting profitability metrics. Experience in hiring, training, and mentoring staff to create teams focused on exceeding expectations. History of leading initiatives, revising processes, and improving workforce utilization. Results-driven professional with extensive experience in higher education admissions management and strategic approach to enrollment growth. Effective in implementing admission policies that streamline processes and enhance applicant experience. Known for fostering collaborative team environments and delivering consistent results through adaptability and strong interpersonal skills.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Admissions
Thomas Jefferson University – Sidney Kimmel Medical College
09.2017 - Current
- Leveraging strategic operational oversight, future-focused initiatives, and team-centric leadership to surpass goals for a leading medical college.
- Providing comprehensive leadership for a key division that integrally supports a medical program generating over $50M in annual revenues
- Directs a team of admissions professionals to manage 13,500 applications annually while achieving acceptance goals and maintaining standards
- Scales operations to support program growth while achieving budget goals by streamlining workflows, optimizing staffing models to improve workforce utilization, and creating training programs designed to standardize efficiency
- Develops strategic partnerships and mutually beneficial relationships with a wide range of organizations within the vertical, resulting in improved brand presence and strong candidate referral networks
- Integrally involved in managing a software implementation project and supporting all phases from concept development to go-live processes
- Instrumental in developing recruiting strategies and selecting top-talent by developing advanced, data-driven candidate evaluation methodologies, creating interviewing protocols, and designing detailed criteria models
- Builds cohesive student cohorts by working closely with staff to select candidates that align with organizational mission, values, and culture
- Team Building, Human Resources & Regulatory Compliance
- Recruits, interviews, and hires goal-oriented staff while providing mentoring, training, and motivation to create outstanding teams
- Achieves exemplary employee satisfaction rates through team-focused leadership, promoting professional progress, and creating constructive, diverse, and inclusive environments
- Improves department metrics scores by working with cross-functional teams to identify policy nonconformance issues, create corrective actions plans, and develop associated training to prevent future issues
- Financial Leadership & Process Improvement
- Interacted well with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.
- Mentored junior staff, fostering professional development and promoting a culture of accountability within teams.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop and execute long-term corporate goals and objectives.
- Instrumental in driving holistic organizational change by promoting excellence as a core competency, and championing a positive culture
Project Manager
Thomas Jefferson University – Sidney Kimmel Medical College
09.2015 - 09.2017
- Instrumental in leading a comprehensive curriculum design project, collaborated with subject matter experts spanning multiple clinical specialties, and achieved goals across budget, timeline, and quality metrics.
- Modernized an antiquated curriculum model that supported medical school operations for 100+ years and developed both didactic and clinical programs while integrating current best practices, proven pedagogical principles, and cutting-edge technologies to create a state-of-the-art program that positively impacted student success
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams across several departments to develop project scope, determine areas of improvement, design curriculum, author training programs for faculty, and create an implementation plan that facilitated a seamless transition between curriculum models
- Improved team productivity through mentoring and coaching techniques grounded in best practices while continuously promoting college mission and values to gain buy-in
- Collaborated with senior leaders to impact student engagement, provide innovative learning experiences, and develop a world-class, patient-focused program designed to effectively train the next generation of physicians
Program Administrator – Program for Integrated Learning
Drexel University College of Medicine
08.2010 - 09.2015
Business Unit Manager
Drexel University College of Medicine for Crothall Healthcare
02.2007 - 08.2010
- Managed a $1M+ operation, oversaw 15+ staff, and directed operations for a business unit providing facility maintenance services for Drexel University’s multi-facility campus
Program Manager
Drexel University College of Medicine
03.1997 - 08.2007
Education
Master of Science - Higher Education Administration and Leadership
Post University
Waterbury, CT06-2022
Bachelor of Arts - Journalism And Mass Communication
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, PAProject Management Training Program -
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PASkills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Student Recruitment
- Enrollment Forecasting
- Compliance Monitoring
- Collaborative Problem-Solving
- Relationship Building
- Operational Efficiency
- Public Speaking
- Project Management
- Event Planning
- Customer Relations
- Staff Training and Development
PROFILE
- Talented Operations Executive with 25 years of success managing cross departmental administrative operations, leading mission-critical projects, and systematically improving processes to drive gains across all key performance metrics.
- Team-building strategist with a penchant for cultivating goal-centric teams, integrating best practices to increase productivity, and leveraging executive-level vision to align people, processes, and resources with long-term organizational objectives.
Timeline
Director of Admissions
Thomas Jefferson University – Sidney Kimmel Medical College
09.2017 - Current
Project Manager
Thomas Jefferson University – Sidney Kimmel Medical College
09.2015 - 09.2017
Program Administrator – Program for Integrated Learning
Drexel University College of Medicine
08.2010 - 09.2015
Business Unit Manager
Drexel University College of Medicine for Crothall Healthcare
02.2007 - 08.2010
Program Manager
Drexel University College of Medicine
03.1997 - 08.2007
Master of Science - Higher Education Administration and Leadership
Post University
Bachelor of Arts - Journalism And Mass Communication
Shippensburg University
Project Management Training Program -
Drexel University